| Gardeners, green thumbs are eagerly awaiting the oppotunity to get ...
Green grass and robins have homeowners swapping snow shovels for hoes. The skill- or time-strapped ones just grab the phone and call a landscaper. Anyone who hasn't made an appointment may have to wait awhile. Local landscaping companies have already taken a deluge of requests for new lawns, decorative stone and outdoor rooms. Recent cold temperatures haven't fazed customers, said Dan Patin, owner of Horticultural Specialties Service, N6708 Triple T Road, Mount Calvary. "The weather didn't really help, but the work is there," Patin said. Before the cold spell arrived, most Wisconsin cities had several record-setting warm days, with highs reaching into the 60s and 70s. At Stuart's Landscaping & Garden Center, N7820 Lakeshore Drive, those few days were all it took.
OTC to present landscape plans for houses
Habitat for Humanity is getting some help from students in Ozarks Technical Community Colleges Turf and Landscape program. The students will present their landscape designs on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., at Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington Ave.
The landscape plans are for use in Habitat for Humanitys Legacy Trails housing development, planned for north of Springfield. The students have also found local business ready to donate plants and supplies to complete the project.
The students designs for the development take into account the environment and energy efficiency, and are composed of native plantings. .
If the earth were a TV soap opera the show would of course have to ...
And that, in many ways, describes the history of Earth Day, a melodrama that, after 37 years, keeps on revolving with essentially the same plot, driven by cliff-hangers, villains, heroes, and a beautiful but fragile Mother Earth tied to the proverbial railroad tracks. When former Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson gave birth to the idea it took seven years of incubation before he could hatch the first Earth Day in his Washington office. That long gestation was primarily a product of political ignorance and indifference. The estimated 20 million people who participated in the inaugural 1970 event apparently knew what legions of elected officials did not: the Earth had been poisoned, polluted, paved and populated to a dangerous degree. Eight years earlier, Rachel Carson's seminal environmental treatise, "Silent Spring," which detailed the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use, was published to a similar wave of political indifference and corporate hostility.
Club Directory
Active Artists Association: This group, formed to encourage art and artists, meets the second Monday of each month at 4:30 p.m., January-May and September-December, on the third floor of the Arts Council building. An ongoing exhibit and sale of members' work can be viewed in the Lowe Gallery of the Arts Council. Barbara Smith, 237-3323.
Aglow Lighthouse Ministries: This interdenominational Christian women's ministry meets on the third Saturday of each month at 9 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, 2308 Montgomery Drive. Mary Melton, 243-4899.
All Seasons Garden Club: Encourages the beautification of parks, streets and gardens in the community and aids in the protection of trees, shrubs, wildflowers and wildlife. Meets September-May on the second Monday of each month at 10 a.m.
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